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A Friend in Weed Is a Friend Indeed
"Try Legal Weed" is the slogan printed on bottle caps made by Weed, California brewer Mount Shasta Brewing Company's latest microbrewed lager. The ATF has ordered the brewer not to use the caps, as they may "mislead consumers about the characteristics of the alcoholic beverage."
Messenger bags versus backbacks?
Why do you prefer a messenger bag to a backpack / bookbag (or vice versa) for bicycle commuting? Should I get one?
We're all blue from projection tubes
UK band The Get Out Clause made their newest video by performing in front of 80 of London's approximately 13 million CCTV cameras, and then requesting the footage via the Data Protection Act. The footage was then edited together into this music video.
Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true
A Million Penguins, the wiki novel mentioned previously on MeFi, is complete, and a research paper about it has been released.
The Last Stand 2
The Last Stand 2 is a Flash game in which you play the survivor of a zombie apocalypse. During the day you search for supplies and other survivors; during the night you must fend off the zombies. Make it to Union City in 40 days.
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Three screw-ups
"Now when I screw up, people from all over Charlotte mindlessly come to Belk looking for Magic Johnson." Thee entertaining screw-ups from author and sports columnist Joe Posnanski.
Marathon training in SF?
Can someone recommend a good beginner's marathon training group in San Francisco?
DO NOT WANT unless starving
Arthur Mebius, photographer
The photography of Dutch photographer Arthur Mebius includes personal and commercial work, and is often rather funny.
Overdub Tampering Comittee
The Overdub Tampering Comittee Manifesto. What if there was a network of musicians who got a hold of albums right as they leaked, added subtle yet very much additional overdubs all over the album, and then re-leaked it to the internet? ... We set out to make that specific bewildering, annoyance a possibility.
Short dutch films
The short films of Floris Kaayk and Sil van der Woerd blend live-action footage and computer animation. Metalosis Maligna. Swim. Duet.
Order Electrum.
Very petite, like a potato
Weng Weng Rap is a musical tribute to the Philippines's beloved 2' 9" tall superspy, the star of such films as For Your Height Only (audio clips). (Some lyrics mildly NSFW.)
Who Gets to Tell a Black Story?
Prior to his critically acclaimed program The Wire, creator Edward Burns wrote the HBO miniseries The Corner, which also focused on the drug trade in Baltimore. Charles S. Dutton, an African-American Baltimore native and former convict probably best known to most as TV's "Roc," was chosen to direct the miniseries. Who Gets To Tell a Black Story?, part of a Pulitzer-prize winning NYT series on race in America, examines Dutton's take on how to make a TV program which portrays a mostly African-American cast of characters, the struggles and differing perspectives of Dutton and Burns, and how race is portrayed in Hollywood.
I'm looking for gift suggestions for a beginning gardener.
I'm looking for suggestions for good gifts for a beginning gardener. Books? Seeds? Tools?
Indexed on US Politics
Jessica Hagy, author of indexed (previously) covers the 2008 Presidential Election for McClatchy's "alt.campaign" site.
IMAP proxying help needed
My work's firewall recently began blocking outbound traffic that isn't on ports 22, 80, and 443, and I'd like to use my home router (running openwrt) to proxy my personal IMAP email so I can read it from work.
Yoga mat is not grippy
How do I make my yoga/exercise mat stickier, so my hands and feet don't slip around when I'm sweaty?
Human Brain Cloud
Human Brain Cloud is a simple but addictive mutiplayer word association widget with a nifty Flash interface, brought to you by one of the founders of the Experimental Gameplay Project [previously].
What is the Latin name of this rhetorical device?
What is the formal Latin name of this rhetorical device?
ActionScript book for an experienced programmer?
Can someone recommend a good ActionScript book for an experienced programmer?
Decent windows CD-labelling software?
Is there any windows software for designing labels for my mix CD's which doesn't completely suck?
Thunderbrd and inline images
How can I stop thunderbird from automatically rendering inline (attached) images?
MefiSwap side swaps
MefiSwap side swaps - anyone else interested?
They read the alt-weeklies so you don't have to
SonicLiving is a website which tracks live events (mostly shows) in your home town, and can read in tracks from your last.fm or pandora account to notify you of interesting shows coming up in your area, as long as your area is one of the currently-limited areas they cover. (vide intra)
How do I securely fasten a mattress to the roof of a small car?
How do I securely fasten a mattress to the roof of a small car?
"I wanted to tell the story the way I thought HE saw it"
Here's an interview with Richard Linklater about A Scanner Darkly and Philip K. Dick, in comic-book format. Also: the much longer transcript of the interview.
We are not lovin' it all that much, actually
When McDonald's Interactive recently gave a presentation at the International Serious Games 2006 conference, they made a startling announcement: "we can no longer stand by while McDonald's corporate policies help lead the planet to ruin. [...] So our team has decided to break away from McDonald's and do something about it." (more inside)
leave the title attribute as-is
The amazon link-rewriting thingie seems to strip out title="foo" attributes from <a> tags which link to amazon. Would it be possible to get it to leave the title attribute as-is? I would like to (manually) add a warning to amazon links, like title="(amazon link)" or similar.
Claudia Emerson wins pulitzer for poetry
Claudia Emerson, a Virginian poet and English professor, has won the 2006 Pulitzer prize for poetry for her book The Late Wife. Here is an interview from 2002, and here is a podcast of Professor Emerson reading from The Late Wife in 2005. Some of her poems: "Bone," "The Bat," more.
Happy Friday
Orangutwang is a simple Flash game about a stretchy monkey (sadly, the monkey does not play banjo). Don't touch the spiders!
Opus Posthumous
Elizabeth Bishop is one of the most esteemed modern American poets, yet her Collected Poems, containing all of the poems published during her lifetime, runs to a scant 287 pages. Now, 27 years after her death, a selection of her unpublished poems has been published as Death and the Juke-Box by Alice Quinn, an editor at the New Yorker. (more inside)
Geru Geru Panic
Geru Geru Panic (Gel Gel Panic) - the Japanese flash game where you must fend off attacking (wait for it) jellies. Also by the same author: about a billion more flash games featuring Panzo the panda. Note: first link is to a game with background music.
Beware the vengeful shade of thingamabob
It Came from the Crypt of Whatchamacallit. Flash platformer, because Tuesday is the new Friday.
Data = Art
distellamap is a series of graphical representations of the code and data in Atari 2600 game cartridges, created using the Processing programming language. The results are rather pretty. Also by the same author: mario soup, a representation of the sprites in Super Mario Brothers. (via artificial.dk)
Stick figures must die
Stick Arena - mindless multiplayer Flash violence, because I can't frigging wait for it to be Friday already.
Star Wars as pomo metafilm
The Force. Some see it as a religion, some as an academic discipline to be studied. But what if it's really a manifestation of metatextual authorial intervention? Three decades on, the kids who grew up playing with Luke Skywalker action figures and carrying Princess Leia lunchboxes may be startled to discover that Star Wars is really just one big elephantine postmodern art film. (more within)
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